The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human Happiness, Volume 2W. Blackwood and sons, 1840 - 544 pages |
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... funds - Strong Injunctions to this social duty in the Gospel -No variance between them and the real interest of the Poor . - 166-241 . CHAPTER XIII . ON CHURCH ESTABLISHMENTS AND THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEM . General acknowledgement of the ...
... funds - Strong Injunctions to this social duty in the Gospel -No variance between them and the real interest of the Poor . - 166-241 . CHAPTER XIII . ON CHURCH ESTABLISHMENTS AND THE VOLUNTARY SYSTEM . General acknowledgement of the ...
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... funds which should be destined for future emergencies ; and brings on the production of a population without either any adequate means for its present mainte- nance , or any habits of industry for its future support . Mr Hume has said ...
... funds which should be destined for future emergencies ; and brings on the production of a population without either any adequate means for its present mainte- nance , or any habits of industry for its future support . Mr Hume has said ...
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... funds for the maintenance of labour can comfortably support . It is always found to exist to the greatest degree among the poorest and the most degraded class of society : among those who have no fixed object in life : who have been ...
... funds for the maintenance of labour can comfortably support . It is always found to exist to the greatest degree among the poorest and the most degraded class of society : among those who have no fixed object in life : who have been ...
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... funds for the maintenance of an enlarged po- pulation , and the developement of the principles intend- ed for its limitation ; for the grandeur of the commu- nity , and the happiness of all the individuals of which it is composed . To ...
... funds for the maintenance of an enlarged po- pulation , and the developement of the principles intend- ed for its limitation ; for the grandeur of the commu- nity , and the happiness of all the individuals of which it is composed . To ...
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... funds and hence the importance which the friends of every man of improvident habits attaches to getting part of his professional earnings invested in land , or a house , or some other permanent object . The same principles operate with ...
... funds and hence the importance which the friends of every man of improvident habits attaches to getting part of his professional earnings invested in land , or a house , or some other permanent object . The same principles operate with ...
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Page 517 - Their starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
Page 398 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 516 - There are at the present time, two great nations in the world which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans.
Page 399 - Come, bright Improvement ! on the car of Time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
Page 507 - ... are continually in operation throughout the country, they ultimately impart an irresistible impulse to the national character. The American, taken as a chance specimen of his countrymen, must then be a man of singular warmth in his desires, enterprising, fond of adventure, and above all of innovation. The same bent is manifest in all that he does ; he introduces it into his political laws, his religious doctrines, his theories of social economy, and his domestic occupations ; he bears it with...
Page 510 - This gradual and continuous progress of the European race towards the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential event ; it is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God.
Page 506 - America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion, and every change seems an improvement.
Page 385 - Gulf of Mexico, and from the Mississippi to the Atlantic Ocean, there is not one pauper to be found. Such are the customers whom America presents to us. The rapid increase of their culture and population too, doubling in twenty-five or thirty years, must necessarily augment this demand for our goods in the same proportion. Circumstanced as the two countries are, I use no figure of speech, but speak the simple fact when I say, that not an axe falls in the woods of America which does not put in motion...
Page 268 - No ! we will have her to exalt her mitred front in courts and parliaments. We will have her mixed throughout the whole mass of life, and blended with all the classes of society. The people of England will...
Page 512 - The time will therefore come when one hundred and fifty millions of men will be living in North America,* equal in condition, the progeny of one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preserving the same civilization, the same language, the same religion, the same habits, the same manners, and imbued with the same opinions, propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world — a fact fraught with such portentous consequences as...